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Flash Wolves (Chinese: 閃電狼; pinyin: shǎn diàn láng), formerly known as the yoe Ironmen and 7-11/yoe Flash Wolves, is an eSports organization based in Taiwan that supports League of Legends,StarCraft II, World of Tanks, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, Special Force II, and female League of Legends teams. Their League of Legends team first formed after the draft of Taiwan eSports League Draft Season. The it currently competes in the League of Legends Masters Series (LMS) and is one of the best teams in the region. The team reached the Quarter-Finals of the League of Legends World Championship for the first time in 2015.
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2013
Flash Wolves was originally a participant in Taiwan e-Sports League, formed after the draft of TeSL Draft Season. After finished at sixth place in TeSL, they struggled in Season 3 Taiwan Regional Finals group stage and got the last slot in group B, but four of the players still decided to leave the team. The team announced to forfeit all the major tournaments and went into reform. On October 21, the team adopted nearly full rosters of Gamania Bears and automatically qualified for 2014 LNL Winter and 2014 GPL Winter, but they gave up the latter due to Riot Games' player's age limit.
They made an impressive return in 2013 WCG Taiwan Qualifiers as they beaten two Taiwanese powerhouses Taipei Assassins and ahq e-Sports Club, winning the seed in 2013 World Cyber Games Grand Finals.
April 15, yoe IRONMEN was formed by AsSen, WuYan, Chopper, Beat, REAL1RON, bonbon and Clurnus. May, AsSen becomes a coach. May 23, Clurnus left. May 29, ulRD, president and Jackson join. June, WuYan left. July 16, Vac, Real1ron, BonBon and president leave. July 18, Jackson and ulRD leave. August 22, team rebranded to yoe Flash Wolves. Steak, Maooo, Maple, Dee and SwordArt joined. October 22, NL and HueiYun joined. December 15, REFRA1N joined.
Flash Wolves placed first in the Taiwan Riot Regionals and then participated in the Season 3 World Championship.
2014
On January 13, Dee left. On January 24, Mountain joined as new starting jungle, REFRA1N moved to mid lane, Maple moved to substitute, and HueiYun left. February 21, Maooo and Maple moved to the academy team yoe Flash Wolves Junior. April 30, Mountain left. yoe Flash Wolves finished 4th in the LNL Winter.
2015
On January 30 they finished first at IEM Season IX - Taipei by beating the Taipei Assassins 2 - 1. In March at IEM Season XIII Katowice they defeated SK Gaming. They were then defeated by Team SoloMid 2-1 in the semi-finals.
The Flash Wolves finished 2nd in the LMS Spring playoffs.
In May Flash Wolves announced the formation of a female LoL team.
Flash Wolves finished 2nd in the LMS Summer season, and then placed 3rd in the playoffs.
On October 11 Kaohsiung mayor Kiku Chen made a surprise visit to Paris to meet with the Flash Wolves and ahq e-Sports Club and wished them good luck on worlds.
They were the 2nd seed in the Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau region in the 2015 League of Legends World Championship. The team won their preliminary group. Flash Wolves finished in 5-8 place after losing to Origen three games to one.
Management
Premier tournaments
2014
2015
StarCraft II
The current roster consists of PartinG, Leenock, San, Has, and Ian.
World of Tanks
Flash Wolves had a World of Tanks squad.
Special Force II
The Taichung Flash Wolves are one of the best Special Force II teams in Taiwan and began competing in the inaugural Special Force II Pro League that began in October 2015.